Making Peace with the Image in the Mirror

by Steven R. Hawks

Book by Hawks, Steven R.

Genres: Nonfiction, Self Help, Religion, Lds

192 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2001

Reviews

[Suzie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I highly recommend every single woman to read this book, especially if you struggle with body image issues. It helps you to focus on who you really are and how Christ sees you, not how the world does.

[Lindsey · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great book with a LDS/religious perspective on our bodies. It makes you really think about your self-worth and what is really important. I think every teenage girl should read this book.

[Julie · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was a fast read and very insightful. I wish I could have read it as a teenager. Can’t wait to read and discuss it with my kids when they get a bit older.

[Julia Shumway]

Read it ages ago and remember enjoying very much.

[Jeannie Glanville · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book really helped me learn to appreciate myself for who I am. I learned to look at my heart, my spirit, and the beauty that my Heavenly Father sees in me. I really learned to put less of what the world is teaching me to believe about myself into my heart and head, and more of what the Lord teaches me about my body and the beauty of it into my thoughts. It took several times of reading each chapter to actually understand and process the information. Then, it took contemplating the truthfullness of it, and actually trying to use his advice for it all to sink in.

I highly recommend this book. If I had read this in high school, I would have had a different experience in school, I'm sure. Recommended for all women, regardless of age! This world we currently live in places so much emphasis on being "perfect" in every way, especially beauty and shape that the pressure we are under can reduce us to hating every aspect of ourselves. This was really helpful to me!

[Ashley Wood · Rating 5 out of 5]

Every one, but especially every woman should read this. There is so much more to us than our image! We as women are constantly finding things we want to change about our bodies. We focus so much of our time and energy on these feelings and on worldly items that we waste precious time and miss out on what is most important. We will regret this later in life! I am as guilty as the next person on looking at the image in the mirror and being dissatisfied. But I am going to try hard to put a stop to this!

[Stephanie · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a MUST READ for all females and those who work with females struggling with body image issues. The author of this book was a professor of mine at Brigham Young University. In this book he teaches readers how vain and foolish it is to put so much time, thought, and effort into appearance and social acceptance when what we really should be focused on is recognizing, developing, and sharing inner potential.

[Morgan · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm really enjoying this book. I bought it years ago in college and only now got to reading it. It isn't much about what the title seems. It's been a real eye opener for me. This book focuses on obtaining true joy in our lives and overcoming distractions. It's a goody.

[Erin · Rating 5 out of 5]

I wish everyone in the world would read this book and shift its collective paradiagm simultaneously. Fascinating ideas presented in a story-like classroom scenario. I really enjoyed it and it really changed my thinking.

[Christin · Rating 3 out of 5]

I actually did not finish this book entirely. It just got kind of boring. I did like the message it was trying to portray, but not so much the way it was delivered.

[Kaylynn · Rating 4 out of 5]

I would recommend this book to anyone who has ever felt bad about their body. So that pretty much means every woman alive.

[Ashlee · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is written from the LDS perspective and is about body image. Not a must read, but useful information.

[Jana · Rating 4 out of 5]

I like the shift in this book toward basing our sense of self-worth on qualities that are lasting rather than transitory like negative body image

[Candice · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an amazing, life changing book! It gives you lots of things to think about and a drop understanding of our worth. I will recommend this book to anyone and everyone.

[Janette · Rating 2 out of 5]

Wasn't a bad read...just that I knew much of it already.